Annual
Physics and Astronomy Academic Achievement Picnic to be held at College Camp
Thursday
May 2nd, 2013 from 4:00 to 8:00 PM
NANODAYS
is April 6th 2013
SUNY
Oneonta Physics and Astronomy Club Cleans Up the Refractor Sheds March 16, 2013
On Saturday March 16th,
Dr. Jason Smolinski, Gideon Powers, Camera Waldrond, Kenneth Galazka, Nicholas
Juliano and Kelsey Knutsen (see below, Dr. Smolinski not pictured) spent the
day cleaning and rehabilitating the College Camp Observatory refractor sheds
(left of the dome in the picture). The goal is to make the seven permanently
mounted four-inch refractors ready for enhanced classroom, research and public
use.
March
13, 2013: SUNY Oneonta Physics and Astronomy Students Help Host Lego Mindstorm
Workshop January-March 2013
The Science Discovery
Center, Physics and Astronomy Department, Noyce Scholars Program and Catskill
Area School Study Council hosted a Lego Mindstorm Robot Workshop for middle
school students that ran for four Saturdays (Jan. 19, Jan 26, Feb 2 and March
9). P&A alum John Levine ran the program. P&A students Gideon Powers,
Andrew Kulesa (Noyce Scholar) and Kelsey Knutsen and faculty Paul French and
Hugh Gallagher served as mentors as students programmed their robots to master
a series of incremental challenges.
Gideon
Powers develops a strategy with students as they develop a program for
following the figure 8.
Dr.
French looks on as students prepare the robots to walk-the-line (left). The
crew on the final day of the workshop (right).
Science
Discovery Center Science Saturday at the South-Side Mall, February 2, 2013
The Science Discovery
Center (SDC) and the Oneonta World of Learning (OWL) have hosted approximately
ten Science Saturdays, theme-based, hands-on science workshops for children,
since January 2009. On February 2, 2013, the SDC, OWL and the Physics and
Astronomy Club conducted a number of activities related to energy and the
environment. Kelsey Knutsen, Devon Brewer, Camera Waldrond and Kenneth Galazka
helped students build their own motors and understand how generators work.
Coming
Soon Engineering 110 Bridge Competition
Coming
Soon NYSS APS Meeting
SUNY
Oneonta Physics and Astronomy Students Summer 2010
Coupling Energetics and
Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) is a 25 year old National Science
Foundation (NSF) program designed to enhance collaborative research of the
dynamics of the Earth’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere. SUNY Oneonta Physics
and Astronomy students Curtis Walker (Meteorology), Michael Eramo, Scott
Suriano, Peter Anderson, Tim Kelley and James Benway (see below) participated
in the 25th Annual CEDAR Workshop in Boulder CO in June 2010.
The chair of the CEDAR
Science Steering Committee is Dr. Jeffrey Thayer, SUNY Oneonta 1984
(Meteorology). Mike Eramo, Scott Suriano, Peter Anderson, Timothy Kelley, James
Benway and Luke D’Imperio (not pictured) presented two posters on observations
of large scale electron density variations and waves in the upper atmosphere
over the North-East United States. These electron density variations can affect
communications and navigation systems. (Below is picture from the poster
venue.)
All of the students
pictured above and Luke D’Imperio held paid summer research assistantships in
2010.
Student Summer Affiliation
Curtis Walker High Altitude Observatory, Boulder
CO
Mike Eramo SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta NY
Scott Suriano SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta NY
Peter Anderson MIT Haystack Radio Observatory,
Westford MA
Timothy Kelley Applied Research Laboratory,
University of Texas, Austin, Austin TX
James Benway Applied Research
Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin, Austin TX
Luke D’Imperio Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory,
Princeton, NJ